Edna D Kirksey

I'm a single stay-at-home mom of the wonderful young man you see in these pics. The smile on his face is almost as equal to the size of his loving heart. I couldn't be more proud. To add to that, will hopefully be the pride he feels and shares with his mom when I graduate with a BA from Buffalo State College in December. With that, I hope to someday garner myself a position in a place that will allow me to put my gift for words, people say I have, to use.

My goal is to find a position where I can do the thing I love (writing) and use it to make a difference in someone's life. That may sound naive in a world where a lot of people still define the brass ring in terms of how much money or degrees they can accumulate. My brass ring will also be in knowing I lived my life to the fullest (in Faith as well as action), made every day count, and raised a son who will live the kind of life he can look back on and be proud of. Comparable only to the pride I will and already do have in him. If that means I will be forever reaching for it, then so be it. Those days will be filled with new and more creative ways in which to do it.

Even with the learning disabilities he has, I try to instill in my son the belief that the only limitations he'll have in this life are the ones he puts on himself. Lord knows, when he makes it to the next, he won't have any. If he tries and doesn't succeed as he'd like, at least he's had the courage to try and gave it his best. Man, woman, or child, that's all any of us can ask of ourselves in this life. Anything else is just bonus!

In case it's not evident here, I have a strong love of family, writing, and music that is only surpassed by the ones I have for God and my son. I put the last two in that order, for if it wasn't for "The One", I know I wouldn't have the other. I am supremely blessed to have both!